"Tsk, tsk," I said, not moving at all. "Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains. You're the second guy I've met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail. Put it down and don't be silly, Joe."

Marlowe refuses to flinch after Brody draws a black Police .39 from a cigar box and points it at his nose.

— Philip Marlowe in Philip Marlowe #1 - The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler, 1939)


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